pension, old age security, and health care systems mean that the financial preparations that people make are becoming … Independence are used to investigate the role of health and age in the financial preparations that households make for later life … analyzed using logistic regression. Findings indicate that compared to respondents in poor health, respondents in better health …

research about the effects of life course instability in mid- to late-life on health, but limited research on instability early … later in life has adverse health consequences is great and merits further investigation. …